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Food & Livelihoods

Food & Livelihoods

What is the effect of a pandemic on the global food supply system?

In conversation with Lawrence Haddad, executive director of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, about COVID-19 and the global food supply system.

 
Organic vs. conventional fruits. Marco Verch, Flickr

10 foods you should buy organic

When it comes to purchasing organic vs. conventional produce, how do you decide? Here's a list of the top-10 foods to be sure and purchase pesticide-free.

 
organic onion bulbs

The forward movement of organic and agroecological farming

It’s taken a century to establish the organic foods sector. Now, as climate change increasingly threatens food sources, what role must organics play?

 
A wheat field at sunrise on Bob Quinn's farm in Big Sandy, Montana. Hilary Page

The future of food is ancient, according to Bob Quinn

A Q&A with one of the U.S.’s foremost ancient grain farmers on why modern agriculture must merge with organic farming in order to survive climate change.

 
An offshore wind farm in North Wales. Doug Scobie, Flickr

Social distancing tips from the platypus, renewable records and enzymatic scissors

In this bi-weekly digest of climate news: long-term costs of climate change revealed, commodity prices wobble, and animals that practice social distancing.

 

How does destruction of the natural world affect public health systems?

In conversation with Dr. Aaron Bernstein of Harvard Medical School about the known and anticipated connections between climate change and COVID-19.

 
Facemasks to protect from Coronavirus. Prachatai, Flickr

Coronavirus and carbon emissions, COP 26’s postponement and Venice’s clear waters

In this news roundup: the connections between coronavirus and carbon emissions, oil prices, the ozone layer and where to get carbon-negative hand sanitizer.

 
The head of a black soldier, fly, which is often used to convert compost into animal feed. Thomas Shahan, Flickr

The buzzing potential of insect farms

The rapidly growing industry of insect farms is seeing protein-rich bugs are increasingly filling feeding troughs for more sustainable livestock.

 
Cranberry beans, endemic to Colombia, offer nearly as much protein as beef and often come from more sustainable growth practices. Ann Larie Valentine, Flickr

12 alternative proteins for climate-friendly diets

Forego the meat and make your diet more sustainable with these alternative proteins, cropping up in every part of the world.

 
Scientific estimates say that standard polyethylene can take 500 years to photodegrade (meaning they degrade when exposed to UV light, as they cannot biodegrade). Conservative estimates go up to 1,000 years for such plastic pollution to disappear. Ars Electronica, Flickr

Bagging it: what’s working in the fight against plastic pollution

Which bans, fines and alternatives are successfully curbing plastic bag use in efforts to fight global plastic pollution.

 
At the foothills of the Atewa Forest. Ahtziri Gonzalez, CIFOR

Yes, Ghana should mine bauxite, but not in critical ecosystems like Atewa Forest

A lawsuit against the West African government over the Atewa Forest landscape elucidates the need to balance development and biodiversity.

 
A Fulani boy in Niger herds his family's animals. Stevie Mann, ILRI

An awakening for the world’s rangelands

Pastoralists and their ancestral lands are showing their environmental, cultural and economic value for the global future.

 
New insights on the tropical rainforests of Vanuatu are being made by scientists combining archaeological research methods, such as examining phytoliths, with modern forestry. Claire Cousergue, Flickr

What ancient teeth can reveal about the past lives of forests

Archaeological findings on prehistoric human teeth, and the phytoliths therein, prove under-examined lens into prehistoric land use.

 
A new report has found that feeds used in fish farming have negative impacts on livelihoods, oceanic fish stocks and climate change. Joseph Wu, Flickr

Why sustainable fish farming might be an impossible dream

The inconvenient truth about some fish farming is that fishmeal and fish oil industries are depleting ocean stocks to produce fish feed.

 
Fruit, vegetable and meat consumption were used to determine quality of household diet in a recent study that looked at how forests can help fight hidden hunger. Ollivier Girard, CIFOR

In the tropics, forests can help fight hidden hunger

A lack of micronutrients in diets is an issue known as “hidden hunger." Forests can help this, but only if carefully integrated with local realities.

 

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